I’m TIRED of my KIDS and CHURCH being WEAPONIZED against me!!!

Dear Readers: So two nights ago, a push-poller for the Bonnie Dumanis for Mayor campaign called our home and asked me to “review the issues”. I think I left her a little stunned by one of my statements: I am tired of my son being weaponized against me, so politicians can take more of my wealth to reward their supporters.

How did this statement come about?

As many of you know, I support CARL DEMAIO FOR MAYOR. So, when the pollster asked the question about my inclination to vote (110%) and who I was voting for (Carl, as long as he is an option), I thought we were done. However, she went on to ask a series of question focused on Bonnie Dumanis’ perceived strengths and weaknesses. My spitfire response occurred when she asked me to respond to my feelings toward Dumanis after hearing a statement along these lines: Dumanis considers education a priority.

WTF? Does that mean Carl and the other candidates DON’T think education is important? I can’t think of one normal human being who isn’t appreciative of the need for a solid, basic education for everyone.

The trouble is that in California, our children’s futures are constantly being sacrificed in service of the behemoth of the education bureau-tocracy. These public employee union leaders actually do little for our kids and serve instead themselves. In fact, I shocked her further by asserting that I would be voting against any person obtaining the endorsement of the the California Teachers Organization, the California Teachers Federation, or other similar groups. See CALIFORNIA TEACHERS UNIONS EXPOSED for the entire basis of my reasoning.

Truly, I left her stunned. It was a testament to her skills that the pollster remained entirely professional during the rest of the questioning, and I had her laughing about my opinions of Bob Filner.

I am also deeply concerned about Washington elites dictating to me and other concerned parents about what our kids can and cannot eat. Please check out the odious approach of a lunch program administrator who can’t even bring herself to use the world “parent” to describe the moms and dads packing their kids’ lunches: Educator: Parents Don’t Know Best

Food and health are two key survival issues. I suspect if Team Obama believes it can control these matters, it can control us fully.

1) Contraception Bans being falsely made into a campaign issues.Professor Jacobson was the first to note that the question to Mitt Romney related to states being able to ban contraception during an ABC debate was actually Team Obama’s initially unveiling of how they plan to remove the unpopular topic of abortion from the table and replace it with an issue that would garner support by American women. No matter what you feel about contraception, and no matter how many Catholic women use it or don’t, the fact is birth control will always be available and if you are old enough to have sex you should be old enough to earn money to pay for it.

This contraception matter is AN INANE DISTRACTION. Ever since ancient Egyptians used crocodile dung, people will always use devices to prevent pregnancy. In a free market economy such as ours, it will also be available to those who want it. The real matters important in this election are:

These, my friends, should be our focus. None of the Republican candidates will be banning contraception. Even Santorum. Anyone who tries to persuade you otherwise WANTS you distracted from the truly serious matters of the day.

2)Team Obama’s targeting the The Catholic Church and its institutions, so that it may replace Catholic beliefs and services. The Anchoress has a report that a Planned Parenthood facility offered a Catholic food pantry items, which that charity couldn’t take in good conscience. It seemed that Planned Parenthood facility had arranged for their extremists supporters to follow-up this rejection with calls of complaint and protest, all to give that Catholic charity a PR-black eye. Happily, as many people are now versed on Alinsky tactics, this approach doesn’t seem to be working and the Catholic charity is now receiving even more donations to help the needy.

Libertarians are, many of them, un-silent on this issue. Many libertarians are cultural conservatives, and many are Catholic, so you have allies there. The libertarian world is a wide one; don’t pigeon-hole such a polygot group so readily.

Delightful! The effort by team Obama to try to intellectually corner the Catholic Church, and at the same time to try to tempt born Catholic Americans to turn on the faith — luring, if you will, “lapsed” Catholics to politically turn on the faith of their fathers — is really quite despicable.

The out-and-out cynicism involved is beginning to be recognized by enough people that, fortunately, I believe it is starting to backfire on the Obama Administration.

As it should!

Now, I am not Roman Catholic, nor have I ever been. And, I do not believe I could be a Roman Catholic.

But I do respect people of faith, and religious institutions. Also, I recognize the motivation behind an official effort to indirectly and quite cynically suppress fundamental rights. That is what this is, pure and simple.

Mandating that people act against the precepts of their faith, or of their church, is as completely un-American as anything I can imagine.

It makes me sick to think that a President of the United States could be behind such an effort. But that Barack Obama is behind such an effort in this case is undeniable.

P.S. ‘Weaponized,’ when used in the context that you used it in, is brilliant. Gary North refers, in a similar vein, to Christians using public education as their tithing their children to the state. Christian education (or other private schools, denominationally-affiliated or not) public schools and home-schooling are the two safest ways to ensure that what is learned on Sunday morning and at family devotionals isn’t un-learned Monday-Friday in public schools.
Keep up the good work!